Watch Mikey Garcia and Robert Easter make weight for their lightweight unification bout at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA. Garcia and Easter enter the ring as the division’s only undefeated champions. To see the fight night bout sheet, scroll down. *****

LOS ANGELES (December 1, 2016) – Featherweight world champion Carl Frampton and former three-division world champion Leo Santa Cruz went face-to-face in Los Angeles Thursday along with lightweight world champion Dejan Zlaticanin and undefeated former two-division world champion Mikey Garcia in advance of their respective showdowns Saturday, January 28 in a Premier Boxing Champions event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and live on SHOWTIME. The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING doubleheader begins at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT with Zlaticanin vs. Garcia. For Frampton and Santa Cruz, Thursday’s event was the second press conference promoting their highly anticipated rematch as the featherweights spoke to media in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Tuesday at the Europa Hotel. Tickets for the live event, which is promoted by Ringstar Sports in…

During the Pacquiao Bradley Fight Week in Las Vegas, Top Rank Chief Bob Arum confirmed to the Morning Punch-In Show w/ RB & Jae podcast that Mikey Garcia has been released from Top Rank. “Other promoters made runs at him. And that screwed him up. and yeah he we didn’t offer him the Crawford fight because he wanted more money than Crawford and Crawford is the champion. That means something. So we’ve given Mikey his release now and he’s free to do what he wants.” Says the release was given “today.” Where Garcia lands remains to be seen.

OXNARD, CA – On August 2nd, Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios returns to action. After a nine month layoff, Rios continues his travels down a road that has been paved with tough opposition. His next fight is no exception. At the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Rios finds himself facing Diego Chaves, ranked in the IBF top 10, Chaves has also traveled the arduous path. At today’s media day, Rios held court for the press on hand going through a light workout and sharing his thoughts on the upcoming match-up. Finding himself in a must win situation, Rios spoke of his conditioning (says he’s within 5 pounds of weight as of today), the toughness of his upcoming…

OXNARD, CA – BadCulture.net has learned that current WBO super featherweight champion and Top Rank star Mikey Garcia filed suit on April 8, 2014 to separate from the promoter citing the Muhammad Ali act. In documents obtained from Garcia’s attorney, Freedman + Taitelman, LLP, the suit alleges Top Rank: “failed to make required disclosures to Garcia concerning, among other things, the amount of money it would make from each of Garcia’s bouts, therefore entitling Garcia to additional damages.” Garcia was last seen in the ring in January when he defeated Juan Carlos Burgos to retain the super featherweight belt. Recent talks of a bout against Yuriorkis Gamboa came to a stalemate when parties couldn’t come…

NEW YORK, NY (January 21, 2014) — Undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior lightweight world champion and 2013 Fighter of the Year nominee MIKEY GARCIA (33-0, 28 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., and two-time world title challenger and current No. 1 contender JUAN CARLOS BURGOS (30-1-2, 20 KOs), of Tijuana, México, will meet for the last time without their gloves at their Official Weigh-In, Friday, January 24., in the Lobby of The Theater at Madison Square Garden. The weigh-ins will begin at 3:00 PM ET and Main Event fighters will step on the scale at 3:15 P.M. ET. Watch the weigh-in LIVE right here The Garcia – Burgos world junior lightweight title fight takes place on Saturday, January 25 and will be televised live…

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NEW YORK (December 16, 2013) — Undefeated two-division world champion and Ventura County Police and Sheriff’s Reserve Officer Academy graduate MIKEY GARCIA returns to the stage where he won his first world title 12 months earlier — The Theater at Madison Square Garden — only this time he’ll be defending his second world championship belt in as many weight classes. Garcia will put his World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior lightweight title on the line against two-time world title challenger and current No. 1 contender JUAN CARLOS “Mini” BURGOS. Garcia vs. Burgos will be televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark®, Saturday, January 25, beginning at 9:45 p.m. ET/PT. The telecast will open with a 10-round battle between undefeated heavyweight contenders BRYANT JENNINGS and ARTUR SZPILKA. These four warriors have a combined record of…